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  Jan 3 2008, 06:23 PM
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Maybe we could make this a monthly item, in which we could look back at the history of Unmanned Space missions.
For January 2008 I've chosen an image showing the coverage of the Sun by early Pioneer 5-8 spacecraft. Pioneer 5 to 8, or Pioneer V to VIII using the system of Roman numerals in vogue during the early 1960s for spacecraft designations, were directed towards the Sun along the earth's orbit to monitor solar activity. Pioneer V was launched on 11th March 1960 and provided the very first space weather report 4 to 8 hours before a solar storm hit the Earth. Some of this Pioneer quartet, Pioneer 6-7-8 even provided updates on our Sun's activity during the early Apollo Moon landings in order to check the damaging potential of solar flares to affect the astronauts. |
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PhilCo126 UMSF space history photo of the month Jan 3 2008, 06:23 PM
PhilCo126 Trying to show another early unmanned spacecraft, ... Jan 19 2008, 08:00 PM nprev Nice! And, I appreciate this, Phil; entirely a... Jan 19 2008, 08:13 PM PhilCo126 In late 1959, the 44 kilograms Pioneer 5 is being ... Feb 1 2008, 06:05 PM
Gladstoner . Mar 29 2008, 09:58 AM PhilCo126 Just wanted to conclude the early Pioneer series w... Feb 3 2008, 06:08 PM PhilCo126 Time for a Soviet-Russian success in the early day... Feb 22 2008, 07:09 PM Phil Stooke "After Luna 2 (January 1959), which was renam... Feb 22 2008, 08:23 PM PhilCo126 celebrating the leap year this 29th Feb 2008 with ... Feb 29 2008, 11:40 AM PhilCo126 As Mariner 2 was the first successful interplaneta... Feb 29 2008, 11:48 AM rlorenz QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Feb 29 2008, 06:48 AM)... Feb 29 2008, 02:40 PM PhilCo126 The 365 kg Ranger spacecraft, which had 6 cameras ... Mar 15 2008, 07:50 PM PhilCo126 The unmanned Surveyor spacecraft explored the Moon... Mar 29 2008, 08:29 AM DDAVIS Surveyor 7 (January 1968) was a scientific mission... Mar 29 2008, 10:15 PM NGC3314 QUOTE (DDAVIS @ Mar 29 2008, 04:15 PM) Su... Mar 30 2008, 08:58 PM DDAVIS The only printed version I can remember seeing was... Mar 31 2008, 07:59 PM tedstryk The version I have is in the Surveyor VII televisi... Mar 31 2008, 10:55 PM Tom Tamlyn QUOTE (DDAVIS @ Mar 31 2008, 02:59 PM) I ... Apr 1 2008, 04:31 PM DDAVIS [quote name='Tom Tamlyn' date='Apr 1 2... Apr 1 2008, 04:59 PM Del Palmer QUOTE (DDAVIS @ Apr 1 2008, 04:59 PM) I w... Apr 1 2008, 08:38 PM peter59 QUOTE (DDAVIS @ Mar 29 2008, 11:15 PM) Su... Mar 31 2008, 06:30 AM peter59 QUOTE (DDAVIS @ Mar 29 2008, 11:15 PM) Su... Mar 31 2008, 06:46 PM nprev ...could well be, Gladstoner! The early days o... Mar 29 2008, 11:36 AM Phil Stooke The Surveyor bacterium story is not generaly accep... Mar 29 2008, 12:20 PM dvandorn QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Mar 29 2008, 07:20 A... Mar 29 2008, 06:23 PM NGC3314 QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Mar 29 2008, 06:20 A... Mar 30 2008, 08:51 PM Phil Stooke Re: the Pioneer 5 image.
That's quite a Clean... Mar 29 2008, 12:24 PM imipak QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Mar 29 2008, 12:24 P... Mar 29 2008, 02:09 PM PhilCo126 Thanks for pointing out the typo, Apollo 12 indeed... Mar 29 2008, 06:00 PM PhilCo126 Doug, the 58 cm diameter spheroidal probe Luna 9 ... Mar 29 2008, 07:01 PM dvandorn QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Mar 29 2008, 02:01 PM)... Mar 29 2008, 07:25 PM djellison QUOTE (dvandorn @ Mar 29 2008, 07:25 PM) ... Mar 29 2008, 08:06 PM Phil Stooke Quite right, Doug. I had only just got out of bed... Mar 29 2008, 07:06 PM dvandorn Really? I clearly recall a much higher bounce est... Mar 29 2008, 09:12 PM edstrick There used to be a distinction between hard and so... Mar 30 2008, 10:48 AM tedstryk QUOTE (edstrick @ Mar 30 2008, 10:48 AM) ... Mar 30 2008, 02:18 PM Phil Stooke I don't think there should be any distinction,... Mar 30 2008, 03:28 PM PhilCo126 Well, great discussions just because of one photo ... Mar 31 2008, 08:46 AM edstrick The Surveyor images of the crescent (i think) eart... Apr 1 2008, 06:23 AM DDAVIS I wonder if a carefully pointed 5 watt green laser... Apr 1 2008, 04:25 PM PhilCo126 While we're talking about Surveyor: Apr 1 2008, 12:15 PM PhilCo126 Photo for April 2008: Mariner IV flyby of Mars:
In... Apr 1 2008, 04:48 PM PhilCo126 Some of the Surveyor NASA-JPL technical reports ar... Apr 2 2008, 09:17 AM NGC3314 QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Apr 2 2008, 04:17 AM) ... Apr 2 2008, 01:29 PM PhilCo126 A few good books on Mariner IV:
Mariner Mars 1964... Apr 2 2008, 06:59 PM PhilCo126 The 245 kg Mariner 5 was actually built as a backu... Apr 26 2008, 05:27 PM edstrick At or near the end of the planned period of reacqu... Apr 27 2008, 08:12 AM nprev Phil, was Mariner 5 pretty much a backup bus for M... Apr 27 2008, 10:00 AM tedstryk QUOTE (nprev @ Apr 27 2008, 11:00 AM) Phi... Apr 27 2008, 07:31 PM nprev Well, they were probably right in that regard. I... Apr 29 2008, 11:42 AM edstrick Mariner 5 was an engineering test vehicle for Mari... Apr 30 2008, 07:35 AM PhilCo126 The next pair of Mariner spacecraft were the Marin... May 1 2008, 08:55 AM Phil Stooke I like the 1960s laptop.
Phil May 1 2008, 01:48 PM ElkGroveDan QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ May 1 2008, 05:48 AM... May 1 2008, 02:17 PM ilbasso I miss having knobs to turn and switches to throw.... May 1 2008, 04:30 PM Phil Stooke I know, I know... I mean, picture it... the bolt o... May 1 2008, 04:51 PM Ken90000 Secretly, I admire Mariners 6 and 7. To my untrai... May 2 2008, 02:21 AM PhilCo126 Mariner Mars 1969 in launch configuration ( with t... May 2 2008, 10:02 AM Paolo QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ May 2 2008, 12:02 PM) ... May 2 2008, 10:11 AM edstrick "...the last contact with these great travele... May 4 2008, 02:45 AM Paolo Mariner 5 during ground tests (radiooccultation an... May 4 2008, 10:25 AM dvandorn Does anyone recall whether or not Mariner 5 flew w... May 4 2008, 11:15 PM edstrick The vanes were light-sail vanes, they were essenti... May 5 2008, 01:43 AM PhilCo126 correct, see the rightside picture ontop of page 4... May 5 2008, 02:12 PM PhilCo126 1971: Mariner IX to Mars
The 998 kg (launch weight... Jun 3 2008, 03:49 PM PhilCo126 Well, after Mariner IX comes Mariner X
The 503 kg... Jul 6 2008, 11:54 AM Paolo That picture in very high resolution, plus others ... Jul 6 2008, 12:00 PM Paolo From a contemporary magazine, I have scanned and p... Jul 6 2008, 03:16 PM PhilCo126 Well, after last month's failure to come up wi... Aug 1 2008, 06:05 AM PhilCo126 As a follow-on of the Mariner series, Pioneer F/G ... Aug 26 2008, 05:35 PM PhilCo126 As I already posted the Pioneer 10 photo for Septe... Sep 8 2008, 10:24 AM djellison QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Sep 8 2008, 11:24 AM) ... Sep 8 2008, 11:31 AM jamescanvin Indeed. And as for "retro space-tech" it... Sep 8 2008, 12:02 PM PhilCo126 O.K. guys... this means I gave to come up with som... Sep 8 2008, 05:17 PM lyford That is so.... beautiful! *sniff* *sniff* I m... Sep 8 2008, 09:28 PM Tesheiner Ah! It reminds me the mainframe existing at ou... Sep 9 2008, 07:44 AM tty Ah yes, those were the days. It reminds me of the ... Sep 9 2008, 08:19 PM PhilCo126 Because this month is special (closure of manned s... Sep 18 2008, 05:44 PM PhilCo126 TelStar 1962, an amazing 77 kg satellite. Since Ju... Oct 1 2008, 06:03 PM PDP8E Telstar 1 can still be tracked with a telescope.
I... Oct 1 2008, 08:24 PM ElkGroveDan Does anyone else get the feeling that when commerc... Oct 1 2008, 09:24 PM djellison It'd be scientifically interesting. Sort of a... Oct 1 2008, 09:40 PM Phil Stooke I watched some of the first Telstar transatlantic ... Oct 1 2008, 10:28 PM stevesliva Some talk about it here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/... Oct 1 2008, 10:29 PM PhilCo126 Overall, the spin-stabilized satellite measured 88... Oct 2 2008, 05:26 PM Juramike My brother's stepfather was the late Jack Olso... Oct 5 2008, 03:30 AM PhilCo126 Happy Halloween !!! Oct 31 2008, 01:49 PM nprev GENIUS!!! Thanks, Phil! Oct 31 2008, 04:07 PM PhilCo126 In fact that's an official NASA-JPL image and ... Oct 31 2008, 04:32 PM PhilCo126 For November I have chosen a space observatory pho... Nov 1 2008, 10:37 PM PhilCo126 This month's photo shows a mockup engineering ... Dec 1 2008, 02:00 PM PhilCo126 Surveyor photos continued this month but this time... Dec 6 2008, 11:33 AM ilbasso Here's a photo of the Surveyor ground test art... Dec 6 2008, 02:44 PM PhilCo126 This artist impression by David Hardy ( who had an... Jan 2 2009, 09:51 AM PhilCo126 In an effort to "upgrade" this " UM... Feb 3 2009, 05:27 PM djellison I don't know what it is - but it
1 - Looks p... Feb 3 2009, 05:41 PM jamescanvin The Elevation and Azimuth dials in the background ... Feb 3 2009, 05:56 PM djellison Ahh - an LNB of some sort (at least, that's wh... Feb 3 2009, 07:14 PM Stu It's obviously the NOMAD probe being built...
... Feb 3 2009, 07:21 PM stevesliva What are the 35's on their badges?
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